Westaker Free Lutheran Church
Westaker Free Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 321 Minnesota Ave E in Newfolden, MN 56738-3706. It is one of 7 churches in Newfolden, and one of 4 Lutheran congregations in the city.
Westaker was established on February 13, 1887, by a group of immigrant familes who met at the Soren Sorenson home to organize a new church.
321 Minnesota Ave E, Newfolden, MN, 56738-3706Phone: (218) 874-7925 · Website: https://www.westaker.org/
Westaker Free Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,487 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Minnesota — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
Ministries at Westaker Free Lutheran Church
- Sunday School
- Vacation Bible School
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Latest from Westaker Worship Services's YouTube channel: September 13, 2026 - The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (all videos).
The community around Westaker Free Lutheran Church
It takes 12.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 39.1%
- Social Isolation: 29.3%
- Depression: 23.9%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Westaker Free Lutheran Church
- New Hope Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Evangelical Free Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 6.5 mi away
- Bethania Lutheran Free Church — 6.8 mi away
- Alma Free Lutheran Church — 6.9 mi away
- Nazareth Lutheran Church — 7.6 mi away in Holt, MN
- Ringbo Emmanual Lutheran Church — 8.8 mi away in Middle River, MN
- First Lutheran Church — 9.2 mi away in Middle River, MN
- Zion Lutheran Church — 9.2 mi away in Viking, MN
- St Joseph's Catholic Rectory — 9.3 mi away in Middle River, MN
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 6.5 mi away
- Bethania Lutheran Free Church — 6.8 mi away
- Alma Free Lutheran Church — 6.9 mi away
- Nazareth Lutheran Church — 7.6 mi away in Holt, MN
- Ringbo Emmanual Lutheran Church — 8.8 mi away in Middle River, MN
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